Apologies for being hopeless about keeping this up-to-date, but here are many of my main professional events. I’ve given up including broadcasting because I do a lot of it about this and that, here and there and at short notice and can’t keep track.

JUNE 2016

9-12.06.2016

Sean MacDiarmada History Summer School, Killyclogher, Co Leitrim

MAY 2016

19-22.05.2016

CrimeFest, Bristol

APRIL 2016

8-10.04.2016

Crime Writers’ Association, Norwich

MARCH 2016

22.03.2016

Talk on 1916 at Queen Mary College, London

JANUARY 2016

21.01.2016

responder at talk on the Easter Rising, The Church in the Public Square Conference, Union Theological College, Belfast

NOVEMBER 2015

4.11.2015

E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Centre, Muncie, Speaker at Town and Gown lunch: “Changing Europe in the 21st Century”

International Conference on “The Legacy of the Great Famine”, Newry, County Armagh: participant, The Famine Plot – A discussion onthe Great Famine and Culpability’, with Tim Pat Coogan, Liam Kennedy, Brian Patterson and Robert Kairns (chair)

24.09.2015

University College London, moderating panel on The Economist with the editor, Zanny Minton Beddoes and three of her predecessors, Bill Emmott, Rupert Pennant Rea and Andrew Knight

AUGUST 2015

29.08.2015

All Ireland Humanist Summer School, Carlingford, County Louth: paper, Are we awakening from Ireland’s violent past?

14-16.08.2015

St Hilda’s Mystery and Crime Weekend, Cambridge

3.08.2015

William Carleton Summer School, Clogher, County Tyrone: paper, Can we achieve permanent peace for the heirs of Carleton’s peasantry?

I go to exhibitions for pleasure, but Tracey Eminís at the Hayward Gallery was for work. (I'm writing a satirical crime novel about conceptual art). Talentless and drearily solipsistic, it is beyond satire.

CrimeFest Bristol: On panel Down in the Sewer: Violence, Language and Sex (21st, 10.10-11.00). Also speaking at ‘In the Spotlight’ on: Making fun of Islam: should crime writers fear to offend or go for the jugular? See the write up 'My friend Ayo Onatade and the PC patronisers'.

14.05.2010

Discussion with Niall Crowley on RTE's Pat Kenny show.

14.05.2010

Royal Irish Academy: speaker at seminar on Journalism and the Dictionary of Irish Biography

APRIL 2010

19.04.2010

New Culture Forum: Pascal Bruckner, author of The Tyranny of Guilt  An Essay in Western Masochism.

Bouchercon 2009, Indianapolis: 4.30pm: IRISH CRIME IN FACT AND FICTIONA discussion of how the same subject  Ireland  is treated in fiction and in non-fiction, focusing on the constraints and freedoms offered by each approach.
Kathryn Kennison (M), Ruth Dudley Edwards, Stuart Neville

Ruth will be interviewing Lindsey Davis and appearing with Troy Cook, Denise Dietz, Honora Finkelstein, Susan Smily, Bill Fitzhugh and Parnell Hall on 'The Humor Panel' and will be the moderator of the panel on Political Correctness and Criminal Acts' (members: Bill Fitzhugh, Charlotte Hays, Heather Jeeves and John O'Sullivan). My friend John O'Sullivan on Magna cum Murder

'[Ruth Dudley Edwards'] crime fiction usually takes the form of bludgeoning to death one of the sacred cows of contemporary life. The series has several recurring characters, but the bludgeon tends to be wielded most ruthlessly by Baroness Troutbeck... Here Troutbeck turns on modern art: in particular, she charges an unholy coterie of commercially astute artists, gallerists, critics, curators and academics with glorifying derivative and inept work and colluding to drive up its value to levels that are frankly obscene. She names names with gleeful abandon. The plot serves as an entertaining vehicle for a polemic against the abuses of modern art, which is all the more effective for quoting facts and figures. Meanwhile the story deals with murder, mass kidnapping and a particularly sinister variant of Big Brother, designed for an audience of one (a Russian oligarch with unusual mental health issues). The novel is also very funny and should be required reading in the nation’s art colleges, not to mention for Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Charles Saatchi and Sir Nicholas Serota (or, as Lady Troutbeck prefers, Sclerota).'The Spectator

'The latest in a comic crime series, which has, over the years, delivered hefty slaps to the rumps of various sacred cows. Here, [Ruth Dudley Edwards] takes a swipe at the world of conceptual art, with her heroine, the magnificently monstrous reactionary libertarian Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck, on splendidly splenetic form.'Guardian

'The plot moves seamlessly from the sublime to the ridiculously sublime...There are some great jokes in this book and even if the targets are not that difficult to hit for a satirist of Ruth’s standing, one is left in no doubt that this is a subject close to her heart and one she has been seething about for several years.'
Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine

'A raucous send-up of the art world’s collectors, critics, curators and especially those postmodernists who call themselves artists... Imagine "And Then There Were None" written with wicked humour and a major grievance about money, not taste, ruling the art world.'Kirkus Reviews

'[Had me] shamelessly laughing out loud... There are few writers around who are inspired to make heinous crime into comedy, but Ruth Dudley Edwards has achieved her goal precisely. In addition to crafting a brilliant plot there is no restraint when it comes to naming and shaming those who, conceptually or otherwise, wish to deceive and make millions of pounds along the way...Killing The Emperors by Ruth Dudley Edwards gets a full five stars from me!'Concert News Online

"She is one of the most important contemporary writers on Ireland and this is compulsive reading... the entire work is an Irish masterpiece." Tribune

"This vital, powerful book tells a story of loss, resilience and terrorism... this book... recounts a remarkable story of victims’ resilience and vindication, and deserves to be very widely read."Irish Times

"The brilliant new book by Ruth Dudley Edwards that charts the story of the bombing and of the families’ long and defiant fight for some sort of justice."Belfast Telegraph

"Dudley Edwards expertly weaves human interest, politics and the legal realm together to tell the remarkable tale of determination which saw the families stay the course to see those they felt responsible held accountable for the worst massacre in the recent history of Northern Ireland. Essential reading."Metro

"Ruth Dudley Edwards' account of the Omagh bomb is all the more heartbreaking for her mastery of the small human details… Its portrayal of cruelty and suffering is relevant far beyond Ireland. It should be compulsory reading for everyone  terrorists and state forces  contemplating planting, or dropping, a bomb in conflict."Sunday Tribune

"Aftermath is a forensic account of what happened leading up to and after Omagh, set against the historical background and the developing situation in the North. It's all covered in fascinating and moving detail -- the lives of the victims leading up to that terrible day, the botched warning calls, the mobile phones that caught the bombers, the political fallout, the grief of the families and their campaign that eventually did the impossible.
It combines Dudley Edwards's ability as a gifted historian with her skill as a journalist to produce a hugely important and authoritative book that reads as compulsively as a thriller."Irish Independent

"Dudley Edwards’ finely-researched book benefits from her own proximity to the events and her personal knowledge of the protagonists - the hitherto ordinary people - who took on the Real IRA in the courts, even though there was no precedent anywhere in the world for what they sought to achieve. For anyone interested in this chilling area of recent Irish history, Aftermath is recommended reading."Sunday Business Post

"It is a remarkable and moving story, told in masterly fashion by Ruth Dudley Edwards. Her narrative grips from the start. It is as compelling as a thriller and displays the sympathetic imagination of a great novel... This is an extraordinary and uplifting story of how a group of ordinary people managed to get the justice they sought. It is beautifully told."Scotsman

"The Omagh families have not only held terrorists to account for the death of their loved ones; their legacy is a new legal remedy for victims of violence everywhere."Sunday Times